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Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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20 issues indexed so far

New PEP Editors? Open

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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/peps#5080 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 6, 2026
PEP 831: Clarify build backend flag propagation Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

python/peps#5073 · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Inconsistencies in PEP 1 regarding number assignment Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

python/peps#5064 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Infra: errors blocking migration towards docutils 0.22+ Open

infra

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

python/peps#4924 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 17, 2026
PEP 12: Add list of intersphinx mappings Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

python/peps#4610 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 26, 2025
Mark 3.14 PEPs as Final Open

meta

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/peps#4437 · 3 comments · Opened May 24, 2025
Make it possible to customize historical banner's contents Open

infra question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

python/peps#4394 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 30, 2025
PEP 1: Replace/Update the "How to teach this" with "Documentation Updates" Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

python/peps#4040 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 10, 2024
PEP 677: Callable Type Syntax Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

python/peps#3920 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 23, 2024
PEP 554: Issues with data passing and pickle Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

python/peps#3309 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2023
PEP 3333: URL-decoding and routing Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/peps#3280 · 3 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Aug 8, 2023
PEP 508: fix mistakes in the complete parsley grammar Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/peps#3069 · 8 comments · Opened Mar 22, 2023
Investigate scroll-offset management issues on pages with sticky banner Open

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python/peps#3065 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 20, 2023
Implement a hiding mechanism for sticky banners Open

infra

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/peps#3064 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 20, 2023
PEP 526: Name mangling doesn't take place inside the body of a module Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

python/peps#3062 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 17, 2023
PEP 101: Mention that configure needs to be updated Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 48/100

python/peps#2864 · Opened Nov 2, 2022
Whole-document visible deprecation Open

infra meta

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/peps#2719 · 13 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2022
Decouple and unify PEP header processing for rendering, PEP 0, JSON, RSS and linting Open

infra

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

python/peps#2587 · Opened May 8, 2022
Investigate adding footnote title text Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/peps#2371 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 27, 2022
PEP 12: Refer to canonical docutils quickref/reference instead of duplicating description of reST syntax Open

python/peps#2337 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 17, 2022

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